After phone call with friend, I am calmer. Sort of. Enough to spend time on more important things. Such as wishing Mark Pilgrim half-a-Happy Birthday!. He’s 29.5 today. (Mark, I have a clue for you — when you hit 40, you start celebrating birthdays biennially, rather than semiannually.) Secondly, Jeneane asked folks to link to her co-worker’s weblog. […]
Category: Technology
Defining P2P
In P2P, a peer both provides and consumes services. A group of peers can then provide and consume services to and from each other without dependence on any one server. With this understanding, there’s an assumption that this consumption and distribution occurs when the peer is connected. Within some P2P enabled applications, the communication may be […]
Next Generation P2P?
John Robb at Userland has defined a set of constraints for what he considers to be next generation of P2P. I appreciate that he’s put Userland architecture interests online — it generates conversation. However, I am concerned about the interpretation of “P2P”, for what is, essentially a lightweight server system. Requirement one: The ability for individual […]
UDDI and Discovery
Questions: How do you compare UDDI to other methods of discovering networked resources (may or may not be web services) What’s the difference a global UDDI registry and… – Google: controlled by a single organization – dmoz.org: open, and replicated by other search engines – DNS: governed by ICANN, but organizations can apply to be […]
Blogger Pro—important
–CRITICAL—- Blogger Pro users — if you have posted today, it’s imperative that you check your weblog page, particularly if you use the Blogger template tag to identify weblog posting author. Per Ev: There was a major glitch in publishing this evening. If you published and your name doesn’t look right, publish again.
